Thursday 29 July 2010

It was Thursday, under the sign of Leo (see planets position on July 29, 2010). The US president was Barack Obama (Democratic).
In that special week of July people in US were listening to Love The Way You Lie by Eminem.
The Other Guys, directed by Adam McKay, was one of the most viewed movies released in 2010
while The Help by Kathryn Stockett was one of the best selling books.
On TV people were watching The Great Outdoors.
If you liked videogames you were probably playing Clone Wars Adventures or Deadliest Warrior: The Game.
But much more happened that day: find out below..

Historical Events

Famous Birthdays:

Facts:

Heavy monsoon rains begin to cause widespread flooding (pictured) in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Over 1,600 are killed, and more than one million are displaced by the floods.

The SITE Institute, a terrorist-monitoring organisation, states that the al-Qaeda affiliated Islamic State of Iraq has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on the offices of Al-Arabiya Television in Baghdad that killed four people and injured at least 10. (Middle East News)

An investigation is launched into the unexplained damage suffered by the Japanese oil tanker M/V ''M. STAR'' in the Strait of Hormuz near Oman. (Aljazeera) amp!-- Why is this in Armed conflicts and attacks? --amp

U.S. talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres announces that she is leaving the ''American Idol'' television show after one year as a judge. (People)

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand lifts interest rates by 0.25 percentage points to three per cent. (''Wall Street Journal'')

Metro Bank opens its first branch, in Holborn, London, the first wholly new high street bank in the United Kingdom for more than a century. (BBC)

The Arab League endorses direct talks between the Palestinian Authority and Israel providing certain conditions are met. (''Jerusalem Post'')

North Korean foreign minister Pak Ui-chun arrives in Burma in the first visit since the two countries restored ties in 2007, amid worries over nuclear cooperation. (BBC)

Books

Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who's always taken orders quietly, but lately she's unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer ...

After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, twenty-eight-year-old Justin Halpern found himself living at home with his seventy-three-year-old dad. Sam Halpern, who is "like Socrates, but angrier, and with worse hair,"